Storytelling illuminates imaginative thought and transcends the creative reading process. Through picture books and illustrated storybooks, the Boch Center’s Education team captures the imagination of audiences of all ages through interactive readings.

Please contact the listed BCYF community center to sign up.

• Friday, December 14, 2018, 4 p.m. at BCYF Paris Street Community Center
• Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 10 a.m. at BCYF Leahy/Holloran Community Center
• Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 2 p.m. at BCYF Marshall Community Center
• Thursday, December 20, 2018, 3 p.m. at BCYF Jackson/Mann Community Center

Storytelling illuminates imaginative thought and transcends the creative reading process. Through picture books and illustrated storybooks, the Boch Center’s Education team captures the imagination of audiences of all ages through interactive readings.

Please contact the listed BCYF community center to sign up.

• Friday, December 14, 2018, 4 p.m. at BCYF Paris Street Community Center
• Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 10 a.m. at BCYF Leahy/Holloran Community Center
• Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 2 p.m. at BCYF Marshall Community Center
• Thursday, December 20, 2018, 3 p.m. at BCYF Jackson/Mann Community Center

Storytelling illuminates imaginative thought and transcends the creative reading process. Through picture books and illustrated storybooks, the Boch Center’s Education team captures the imagination of audiences of all ages through interactive readings.

Please contact the listed BCYF community center to sign up.

• Friday, December 14, 2018, 4 p.m. at BCYF Paris Street Community Center
• Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 10 a.m. at BCYF Leahy/Holloran Community Center
• Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 2 p.m. at BCYF Marshall Community Center
• Thursday, December 20, 2018, 3 p.m. at BCYF Jackson/Mann Community Center

Storytelling illuminates imaginative thought and transcends the creative reading process. Through picture books and illustrated storybooks, the Boch Center’s Education team captures the imagination of audiences of all ages through interactive readings.

Please contact the listed BCYF community center to sign up.

• Friday, December 14, 2018, 4 p.m. at BCYF Paris Street Community Center
• Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 10 a.m. at BCYF Leahy/Holloran Community Center
• Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 2 p.m. at BCYF Marshall Community Center
• Thursday, December 20, 2018, 3 p.m. at BCYF Jackson/Mann Community Center

This year's reception, "Who We Art and What We Bring to Boston," will showcase 30 works of art by Haitian artists that are on display in the third floor Scollay Square Gallery.

The event will commemorate the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake. There will also be a book signing for the new version of "Migrating Colors: Haitian Art in New England."

Join your friends and neighbors for a day of activities, including:

• various performances
• arts activities during which members of the community can make happy birthday cards for display
• a memory wall on which people can write down a memory about Curtis Hall, and
• much, much more.

The group will read from works in progress set outside of Boston, and will participate in an interactive panel discussion moderated by AGNI’s Senior Editor, Bill Pierce.

Come learn about the relationship between the writer's work and the experience of being an artist in the City of Boston. How do these things intersect? How do they influence each other? What are the challenges and advantages of writing about a place where you no longer live? What can these writers bring to the city? How can writers and readers in Boston think of literature as a global experience?

The Back Porch Collective is a group comprised of mostly international writers from diverse backgrounds:

• Dariel Suarez (Cuba)
• Stacy Mattingly (Atlanta)
• Shubha Sunder (India)
• Jonathan Escoffery (Miami/Jamaica)
• Ani Gjika (Albania)
• and Colwill Brown (United Kingdom)

Through the Artist Fellowship, the City of Boston offered five awards of $10,000 each in 2017 to Boston-based artists across disciplines. More than 300 applications were reviewed by a panel of jurors made up of local arts leaders and Boston Cultural Council members. Fellows were asked to work with the City on one public event showcasing their work. The 2017 fellows included Dariel Suarez, Mary-Jane Dohery, Marilyn Arsem, Jason Palmer, and Michelle Fornabai.

For the past year, seven artists have dedicated themselves to the exploration of City of Boston policies, processes, and practices through a lens of resilience and racial equity. As members of the Boston AIR cohort, artists developed multidisciplinary projects addressing civic concerns, such as:

• environmental racism in climate change response
• community activism led by older Bostonians, and
• gaps in historic narratives in City archives and memorials.

Some have worked alongside City subject matter experts and co-designed a program, while others have worked with community centers and other partners to understand municipal policy impact on a personal level. Through Boston AIR, the City of Boston is providing support and structure for artists as engaged citizens, leading thinkers, and change-makers in our community with the belief and trust that artists can and do influence and shape our City.

Refreshments will be served, and the event is free to the public. All ages are welcome!